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The claims of kinfolk : African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South / Dylan C. Penningroth.

Summary:

In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the ""freedom generation"" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among blacks, as well as on the more familiar struggles between the races, Penningroth exposes a dynamic process of community and family definition. He also includes a comparative analysis of slavery and slave property ownership along the Gold Coast in West Africa, revealing significant difference.

Record details

ISBN: 0807862134
ISBN: 9780807862131
ISBN: 0807827975
ISBN: 9780807827970
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Publisher: Chapel Hill ; The University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Copyright: ©2003

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Kinship and the slaves' economy from slavery to freedom -- One of the family? Abolition and social claims to property in the Gold Coast, West Africa, 1868-1930 -- Slavery's other economy -- Family and property in Southern slavery -- In and out of court -- Remaking property -- Remaking kinship and community.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016).